Miami

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What's a "dynasty"?  The Founding Father has given us a systematic way to think about it.

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Defining "DYNASTY"

1) He looked up the word, and "dynasty" simply means "series of championships."  He accepts this definition.  Based on that, his own bar is rather loose.  If a team won three pennants in a decade, he's willing to talk about that as a dynasty.  

If the 49er's went to three Super Bowls in a row, losing two of them, he'd probably accept that as a "lesser dynasty" or somesuch.

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1a) This goes AGAINST my own 1970's understanding of the word, in which ONE team CONTROLS the sport for a number of years.  

Just off the cuff ... the 1970's Steelers won like 4 of 6 Super Bowls, and did so in such a way that other teams were terrified of playing them.  This is what I think of when I think of "dynasty," the MAJOR dynasty, the UNQUESTIONED dynasty.

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1b) This may not be possible in the modern NFL and MLB.